The first table below looks at the demand for Continuous Improvement skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Continuous Improvement over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Continual Improvement
Rank 101 76 96
Rank change year-on-year
-25 +20
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Improvement 22 54 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.223% 2.689% 1.393%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.602% 3.495% 2.030%
Number of salaries quoted 17 48 19
Average salary £45,000 £60,000 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% +44.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £50,000 £32,000
10% offered a salary of more than £63,300 £60,000 £58,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,500 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-7.05% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1373 1545 1133
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 76.32% 76.94% 68.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1057 1355 965
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £39,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £61,350
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Continuous Improvement
North West

Continuous Improvement
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Cheshire Continuous Improvement Jobs Demand Trend

Continuous Improvement
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Continuous Improvement Salary Trend

Continuous Improvement
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cheshire Continuous Improvement Salary Histogram

Continuous Improvement
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Improvement within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Warrington +39 19 £45,000 +38.46%
Knutsford +9 2 £34,000 -48.48%
Continuous Improvement
North West

Continuous Improvement
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Continuous Improvement also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Continuous Improvement.

1 9 (20.93%) JavaScript
1 9 (20.93%) Linux
2 8 (18.60%) iSeries
2 8 (18.60%) Project Management
3 7 (16.28%) Finance
4 6 (13.95%) SLA
4 6 (13.95%) IBM
4 6 (13.95%) XML
4 6 (13.95%) ITIL
4 6 (13.95%) Java
5 5 (11.63%) J2EE
5 5 (11.63%) Swing
5 5 (11.63%) E-Commerce
5 5 (11.63%) Red Hat
5 5 (11.63%) Degree
5 5 (11.63%) Android
6 4 (9.302%) Apple iOS
6 4 (9.302%) Java EE
6 4 (9.302%) Hibernate
6 4 (9.302%) Banking
6 4 (9.302%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (9.302%) Business Development
6 4 (9.302%) Spring
6 4 (9.302%) jQuery
6 4 (9.302%) Telecoms
6 4 (9.302%) Service Delivery
6 4 (9.302%) Tomcat
6 4 (9.302%) Oracle
6 4 (9.302%) JDBC
6 4 (9.302%) JSP

Continuous Improvement
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Continuous Improvement also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Continuous Improvement. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (13.95%) XML
2 5 (11.63%) J2EE
2 5 (11.63%) Swing
3 4 (9.302%) Java EE
3 4 (9.302%) Hibernate
3 4 (9.302%) Spring
3 4 (9.302%) jQuery
3 4 (9.302%) JDBC
3 4 (9.302%) JSP
3 4 (9.302%) Struts
3 4 (9.302%) Web Services
4 3 (6.977%) HTML
5 2 (4.651%) Laravel
5 2 (4.651%) Symfony
5 2 (4.651%) CodeIgniter
5 2 (4.651%) CSS
5 2 (4.651%) .NET
6 1 (2.326%) J2SE
6 1 (2.326%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.326%) Velocity
Application Platforms
1 4 (9.302%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (4.651%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.326%) MS Office
2 1 (2.326%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.651%) SAN
2 1 (2.326%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.651%) MS Access
2 1 (2.326%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.326%) MySQL
2 1 (2.326%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 1 (2.326%) JUnit
1 1 (2.326%) Eclipse
General
1 7 (16.28%) Finance
2 4 (9.302%) Banking
2 4 (9.302%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.977%) Retail
4 2 (4.651%) Local Government
4 2 (4.651%) Back Office
5 1 (2.326%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.326%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (20.93%) Team Leader
2 8 (18.60%) Developer
3 7 (16.28%) Analyst
4 5 (11.63%) Business Analyst
4 5 (11.63%) Systems Manager
4 5 (11.63%) Java Developer
4 5 (11.63%) Operations Team Leader
5 3 (6.977%) Support Engineer
5 3 (6.977%) Applications Support
5 3 (6.977%) UNIX Team Leader
5 3 (6.977%) Applications Support Engineer
6 2 (4.651%) Designer
6 2 (4.651%) PHP Developer
6 2 (4.651%) Product Manager
6 2 (4.651%) Software Tester
6 2 (4.651%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (4.651%) Web Designer
6 2 (4.651%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (4.651%) Lead Business Analyst
6 2 (4.651%) Head of IT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) iSeries
2 2 (4.651%) Social Media
2 2 (4.651%) Mathematics
2 2 (4.651%) Computer Science
2 2 (4.651%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.326%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.93%) Linux
2 5 (11.63%) Android
3 4 (9.302%) Apple iOS
4 3 (6.977%) UNIX
4 3 (6.977%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (18.60%) Project Management
2 6 (13.95%) ITIL
3 5 (11.63%) E-Commerce
4 4 (9.302%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (9.302%) Business Development
4 4 (9.302%) Service Delivery
5 3 (6.977%) Quality Management
5 3 (6.977%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (6.977%) Six Sigma
5 3 (6.977%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (6.977%) Time Management
5 3 (6.977%) Web Development
5 3 (6.977%) Data Management
5 3 (6.977%) Asset Management
5 3 (6.977%) Automated Testing
5 3 (6.977%) Systems Analysis
5 3 (6.977%) Supplier Management
5 3 (6.977%) Test Strategy
6 2 (4.651%) Cash Management
6 2 (4.651%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.93%) JavaScript
2 6 (13.95%) Java
3 3 (6.977%) PHP
4 1 (2.326%) C#
4 1 (2.326%) SQL
4 1 (2.326%) VB
4 1 (2.326%) VB.NET
4 1 (2.326%) VB6
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) Degree
2 3 (6.977%) ISEB
2 3 (6.977%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.326%) Sun Certification
3 1 (2.326%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) SLA
2 3 (6.977%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.326%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.326%) XenApp
1 1 (2.326%) XenServer
1 1 (2.326%) XenDesktop
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) IBM
2 5 (11.63%) Red Hat
3 4 (9.302%) Oracle
4 2 (4.651%) Nimsoft
4 2 (4.651%) Fujitsu
4 2 (4.651%) Wall Street Systems
4 2 (4.651%) Zend
4 2 (4.651%) Dell
5 1 (2.326%) BT
5 1 (2.326%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.326%) Citrix
5 1 (2.326%) Apple
5 1 (2.326%) VMware
5 1 (2.326%) AppSense
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